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HESE Satires have beenfavourably received athome, and abroad. I amnot conscious of the leastmalevolence to any par-ticular person thro' all the Characterstho’ some persons may be so selfish, as toengross a general application to them-selves. A writer in polite letters stiouldbe content with reputation, the privateamusement he finds in his compositions,the good influence they have on his se-verer studies, that admission they give

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